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The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) was established in the early 1960s. For almost fifty years, it has provided a wealth of trade information to policy makers, the business community, research institutions and the general public. It stores standardised official annual trade statistics reported by countries and reflects international merchandise flows detailed by commodity and partner country with coverage reaching up to 99 percent of world merchandise trade.

UN Comtrade gives you instant access to more than 1.75 billion records on merchandise trade from over 200 reporting countries or areas covering 48 years of data and more than 6000 different products. With UN Comtrade you spend your time researching instead of searching.

UN Comtrade Key Features

Comtrade Explorer Enter country name, commodity or year and this data mining tool will give an instant overview of data you are looking for. Thereafter, you can dig for more refined data.

UN Comtrade Knowledge Base This is a repository of background information on UN Comtrade. It explains the functionalities, the concepts behind the data, why imports and exports differ and the answers to some frequently asked questions.

Community Forum Users have instant online support via the UN Comtrade Knowledge Base. In addition, there is peer-to-peer support via the UN Comtrade Community Forum, where you can post questions or share your own experience.

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